The Pentagon will send a large floating base to the Middle East, The Washington Post said. The plan comes amid rising tensions with Iran, al Qaeda in Yemen and Somali pirates.
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KAMLOOPS, B.C. – British Columbia curler Corryn Brown will proudly carry the Maple Leaf into the Opening Ceremonies of the inaugural Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck.
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RESTON, VA – comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 56 days of the November – December 2011 holiday season.
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Iranian students have stormed the UK embassy in Tehran, chanting "death to England" and bringing down the British flag. Students clashed with riot police as they climbed over the embassy's gate, rushed into the building and started throwing documents from the windows.
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Muammar Gaddafi is dead, Libya's new leaders said, killed by fighters who overran his hometown on Thursday October 20, 2011.
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The value of foreign-controlled assets, revenues and profits in Canada all declined at a faster rate than those under domestic control in 2009. As a result, the share of foreign control in the Canadian economy declined in the case of all three measures.
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Prices for commercial computers decreased by 0.5% from July 2011 to August 2011, while consumer computer prices declined by 0.6%. In the case of computer peripherals, monitor prices increased by 0.3% while printer prices decreased by 2.0%.
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McGill law student Anthony Morgan witnessed a frosh event at the University of Montreal’s Hautes Études commerciales on Wednesday September 14, 2011, which made him uncomfortable and which he considers racist.
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The first-ever U.S. credit downgrade is sparking a new round of political infighting over the country's continuing economic woes. The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Republican John Boehner, blamed the downgrade on decades of reckless spending, accusing leading Democrats of refusing to make “tough choices.”
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Nycole Turmel, MP for Hull-Aylmer, has just been unanimously selected by the New Democratic Party caucus to replace leader Jack Layton while he receives treatment for a new cancer.
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